Sundray@lemmus.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoMars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in actionwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square71linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkMars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in actionwww.bbc.comSundray@lemmus.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square71linkfedilink
minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 hours agoI would also be surprised if the cost of production, now using cheaper ingredients and far more automation, hadn’t also decreased.
minus-squareTheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 hours agoDoes infinite growth mean eternal shrinkflation? Will it ever plateau? Or collapse?
minus-squareAirfried@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 hours agoOh absolutely. Productivity has increased drastically since the 90s but wages never kept up.
minus-squarePRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 hours agoDon’t say it in cop voice. Say: workers engineers and scientists made everything drastically more productive and the pedophiles stole all the gains. We keep letting them.
minus-squareAirfried@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 hours agoWe’re saying the same thing. The productivity surplus is getting stolen by the Epstein class. I’m not trying to sugarcoat anything.
minus-squarePRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 hours agoI know. You were trained to say it in a way that contains linguistic ‘outs’ for boot lickers and disattributes the harm. Read back my post and look at the formatting.
I would also be surprised if the cost of production, now using cheaper ingredients and far more automation, hadn’t also decreased.
Does infinite growth mean eternal shrinkflation? Will it ever plateau? Or collapse?
Not to mention less cacao
Oh absolutely. Productivity has increased drastically since the 90s but wages never kept up.
Don’t say it in cop voice. Say:
We’re saying the same thing. The productivity surplus is getting stolen by the Epstein class. I’m not trying to sugarcoat anything.
I know. You were trained to say it in a way that contains linguistic ‘outs’ for boot lickers and disattributes the harm. Read back my post and look at the formatting.